In 2014 New York lowered the speed limit for cars to 25 mph. Walk Safe NYC has examined the pose out of pedestrian accidents for January to March for this twelvemonth as well as for the same months inwards 2014. The information shows that the policy has already reduced the pose out of pedestrian accidents inwards all 5 boroughs.
Walk Safe NYC has too released an interactive map showing the most hazardous intersections for pedestrians inwards the city. The map shows the around hazardous intersections from this year's information as well as allows yous to compare the results alongside the information for 2012, 2013 as well as 2014.
New York has laid a 'Vision Zero' goal, to terminate traffic accident deaths as well as injuries on the city's roads. To assistance accomplish this aim the City of New York has released a map, Vision Zero View, which shows detailed information on traffic injury as well as fatality crashes inside New York.
The map has 2 principal views; a visualization of New York's traffic accidents as well as a visualization of the city's attempts to brand the streets safer. The 'Crashes' persuasion allows users to visualize the locations of pedestrian,cycling as well as automobile injuries as well as fatalities. This map persuasion includes a timeline which allows yous to filter the results shown on the map past times year.
To explore New York's traffic crash information inwards item yous tin role NYC Crashmapper. This map visualizes New York intersection collision information betwixt August 2011 as well as Feb 2014.
Using the filter buttons on the correct of the map yous tin persuasion estrus maps of collisions involving pedestrian, cyclist or automobile driver injuries. You tin too role the slide command at the bottom of the map to filter the results shown past times date.
If yous click on an intersection on the map yous tin persuasion a detailed breakdown of the type of collisions that occurred there.
MIT has released a pose out of maps showing areas of perceived security inwards New York, Boston, Chicago as well as Detroit. Using Street View images of the cities StreetScore assesses the perceived security of locations throughout the city. Green dots on the map stand upwardly for the areas which StreetScore has assigned equally having a high perceived security rating as well as the cherry dots are the locations alongside a depression perceived rating score.
One affair missing from the MIT StreetScore maps is the might to filter the results shown on the map past times score. However MIT has made the information available for download as well as then I decided to brand my ain map of New York as well as add together to a greater extent than or less filters.
In this Safe New York map I've taken the information for Manhattan, New York. The map shows the safest as well as to the lowest degree rubber locations equally perceived past times the MIT Street View algorithm. The MIT q-score assigns a value upwardly to 43 for each Street View image. The higher the q-score assigned the higher the security perception. The lower the q-score the lower the security perception.
I've marked every place which has a score nether fifteen alongside a cherry marking as well as every place alongside a score over thirty alongside a greenish marker. All locations alongside a score betwixt fifteen as well as thirty are displayed alongside a xanthous marker.
